Decide if this is separate or part of Reading/Writing
1. What are the skills and strategies students need to know?
2. How do we assess?
Skills
Strategies
How do we assess?
K-2
3-5
6-8
1. Define the term.
2. What are the teaching methods teachers need/can use to teach?
3. What other terms need to be included?
Definition/Rationale for an area of focus
Teaching Methods
Resources
Visual Literacy - Julie and Kate
-literacy is reading and writing information
-information literacy is more than communicating with words, it also includes visual elements such as diagrams, graphs, maps and tables
-many visual texts are complex, multilayered texts
-visual texts communicate certain information more clearly than verbal texts
-visual texts are widely used in electronic media
-visual literacy is a life skill
Reading and Writing
-simple diagrams such as picture glossaries and scale diagrams
-analytic diagrams such as cutaways and cross sections
-synthetic diagrams such as flow diagrams
-graphs such as bar, column and line graphs
-time lines
-maps
-tables
-graphic design
Nonfiction Mentor Texts by Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli
"Visual Literacy Learn to See, See to Learn" by Lynell Burmark
Oral Communication - Julie and Kate
Fountas and Pinnell define this as:
1. Listening and Speaking (Listening and Understanding, Social Interaction, Extended Discussion, Content)
2. Presentation (Voice, Conventions, Organization, Word Choice, Ideas and Content, Media)
3. Technology (Gathering information/Research, Publishing)
"The Continuum of Literacy Learning" by Fountas and Pinnell
Written Communication - Julie and Kate
"The Continuum of Literacy Learning" by Fountas and Pinnell
1. What are the skills and strategies students need to know?
2. How do we assess?
1. Define the term.
2. What are the teaching methods teachers need/can use to teach?
3. What other terms need to be included?
-information literacy is more than communicating with words, it also includes visual elements such as diagrams, graphs, maps and tables
-many visual texts are complex, multilayered texts
-visual texts communicate certain information more clearly than verbal texts
-visual texts are widely used in electronic media
-visual literacy is a life skill
-simple diagrams such as picture glossaries and scale diagrams
-analytic diagrams such as cutaways and cross sections
-synthetic diagrams such as flow diagrams
-graphs such as bar, column and line graphs
-time lines
-maps
-tables
-graphic design
http://k-8visual.info/
Nonfiction Mentor Texts by Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli
"Visual Literacy Learn to See, See to Learn" by Lynell Burmark
1. Listening and Speaking (Listening and Understanding, Social Interaction, Extended Discussion, Content)
2. Presentation (Voice, Conventions, Organization, Word Choice, Ideas and Content, Media)
3. Technology (Gathering information/Research, Publishing)